Mascara sticks for eyelashes



Feb. 23, 1960 c. J. ALTMAN 2,925,319

MASCARA s'rIcKs FOR EYELASHES Filed Aug. 12, 1957 IN V EN TOR.

CLARA J. ALTMAN Pp BY F em g W ATTORNEYS United States Patent MASCARA STICKS FOR EYELASHES Clara J. Altman, Detroit, Mich. Application August 12, 1957, Serial No.677,733 1 Claim. (Cl. 132-85) This application relates to improvements in mascara sticks. The art knows of mascara slabs which are used Patented Feb. 23, 1960 end 13, with the entire assembly being adapted to be I closed by a slip cover not shown.

with brushes, the latter being used for applying mascara cosmetic to eyelashes. These slabs of mascara are adapted to be scraped by the small brush to form a lather on the brush, the slab being wetted before the brush scrapes it, and the lather is then applied by the brush to an eyelash. The foregoing is the common and generally accepted way of applying the cosmetic mascara to an eyelash.

The'art alsoknows of lipsticks which are used as lip pencils, perpendicular to the lips, for applying lip rouge to lips. One example is shown in the Freeman Patent 2,065,800 of December 29, 1936. Such a lipstick is extremely convenient in form for use as a lip pencil and has a means forspirally rotating or propelling and repelling the lipstick out of and back into the casing and is adapted to be enclosed by a tubular cover.

By this invention, I have provided a mascara stick, shaped and constructed like a conventional lipstick as above described, but having a built in brush type scraper for lathering the stick and for applying the lather to an eyelash. The lather will be on the stick during the time of application and the stick is used laterally or parallel to the eyelid, for applying the lather. However, the lather could be on the brush which may be arranged so that the brush can be used laterally, parallel to the eyelid, for applying the lather to an eyelash. This could be done, either by removing the brush from the stick or by moving the stick away from the brush so that the brush is exposed for applying the lather to an eyelash.

More specifically, it is an object of this invention to provide a mascara stick with built-in brush type scraper wherein the stick is arranged for being spirally rotated out of and .into a casing, more or less along the pattern of a conventional lipstick, and wherein the brush is mounted on the casing so as to scrape the stick as the latter is spirally rotated out of the casing and form a lather to be applied to an eyelash.

In general then, it is an object of the present invention to provide a mascara stick with built-in brush type scraper for convenient use and for easy and satisfactory application of a mascara lather to an eyelash.

Still further objects of the present invention will be understood upon reference to the appended drawing disclosing two embodiments of the invention.

In these drawings:

Fig. 1 shows one form of the invention in which the brush is on the end of a bar removably securing the brush to the casing containing the mascara stick.

Fig. 2 shows the brush of Fig. 1, per se.

Fig. 3 is an elevation view, partly in section, of a second embodiment, this one having the brush in the form of a split ring of bristles removably mounted within and at the open end of the casing.

Fig. 4 shows the ring per se of Fig. 3.

The drawing shows a mascara stick holder 10 comprising a tubular casing 11 having a base 12 and an open While no cover is shown for the casing and stick, it will be understood that a cover in the form of a long tube having one end open and the other end closed, and formed generally according to conventional cover constructions used in spirally rotatable lipsticks well-known to the art, may be incorporated herein for covering the applicator herein disclosed with such cover being large enough in diameter to enclose not only the casing but also the scraper means shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Within the casing is a stick 2 0 of mascara. The stick is mounted on the base and the base is rotatably mounted on the casing itself and the casing and base and stick as a whole are provided with means for enabling the stick to be propelled and repelled, that is, rotated spirally out of the casing and back into the casing in a manner'that is common and well-known to the trade, being used commonly for lipstick. One embodiment of such means is shown in the patent to Freeman, 2,065,800, whose disclosure, insofar as it discloses means for spirally rotating a cosmetic stick out of a casing and back into it, is incorporated into this disclosure by reference. Since the art well knows of cosmetic sticks and means for spirally rotating such sticks into. and out of a casing, these is no necessity for here disclosing the specific construction of spiral rotation means that could be incorporated into the devices herein disclosed. The specific form of such means is no part of the present invention which relates more to a combination of parts of which the means for spirally rotating the stick into and out of the casing is but one element, an element whose form and use are old and well-known in the art.

Except for the fact that the parts thus far constructed include, as the cosmetic of the stick 20, mascara, rather than conventional lip rouge in stick form, the parts here described to this point are all old and well-known and differ in no respect from conventional lipsticks. In addition to the fact that the cosmetic stick is of mascara rather than lip rouge, the novel element hereof comprises a brush type scraper removably mounted on the casing for scraping the stick and two difierent forms of such brushes will now be described specifically.

Figs. 1 and 2 show the brush type scraper as comprising a tuft of bristles 40 mounted on the end of a springy bar 41 whose lower end is formed as a split spring ring 42 whereby the bar 41 and its brush 40 and the ring 42 may be manufactured as a sub-unit and removably mounted on the casing in such a position that the bristles scrape and roughen and lather the wet stick as the latter is spiralled out of the casing.

In the other embodiment shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the brush comprises a snap split spring ring 50 of bristles formed as a sub-unit and mounted as a unit in a bead 51 near and inside the open end of the casing in position to scrape the stick as the latter is spirally rotated out of the casing.

The bristles heretofore described may be of bristle form or may be of sponge rubber form, the purpose being satisfied in either case simply by the scraping of the brush on the stick.

Other forms and modifications of brushes for scraping the stick may be contemplated and all will be considered as within the perview of this application.

A normal use of the devices would be as follows: the mascara stick is spiralled out of the casing to some extent and is wetted and then is rotated back and forth a few times until the brush, scraping on the wetted stick, forms on such stick and on the brush a lather of mascara which can then be applied, with the stick laterally or parallel to the eyelid, to an eyelash, either by the stick, or as hereafter described, using the brush of Figs. 1-2.

Advantages of the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 are these.

The bar 41 may be springy to spring press the brush or scraper against the stick. The bar extends lengthwise of the casing and Well beyond it so that the brush 40 on its end may be used as the means for applying. a lather of mascara to an eyelash, Whereas in the construction-of;

Figs. 3 to 4, the only part that can extend beyond the casing is the stick itself and it is the stick which isused as the applicator for the lather to the eyelash. The sub-unit of brush 40, bristles -41 andring 42 may be removed from the casing and used as a brush separate of the casing 'for applying the lather, with the ring 42'and the bar 41 forming the handle for the applicator.

Also, the unit 40-41- 42'can be moved around the casing so-that over a period of timeall portions ofthe stick are wiped by the brush during the normal manipulation of the stick.

Now having described the constructions herein disclosed, reference should be had to the claim which follows.

I claim:

A device comprising a casing, a cosmetic stick, and a scraper, with all three elements being secured to one another to form -a unitary device; the casing being tubular and having one open end; the stick of cosmetic being therein; the stick having means within it for securing and mounting said stick in said casing normally non-remov- .able and constructed for propel-repel movement of the stick out of and back into the casing spirally through its open end; manually manipulable means at the opposite closed end of the casing for spirally rotating the stick for propel-repel movement thereof out of and back into the casing; and the scraper being mounted on said casing and positioned outside the stick and having a stick scraping surface facing the stick and so mounted that the stick References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,131,539 Mureau Sept. 27, 1938 2,148,736 Engel Feb. 28, 1939 2,422,823 Christensen June 24, 1947 2,751,914 Katz June 26, 1956 2,783,489 Bogoslowsky' Mar. 5,1957

FOREIGN PATENTS 131,983 Germany June 20, 1902 

